From the SPARC Open Access Working Group’s statement endorsing the recently ratified UNESCO Open Science recommendation: The utility of the Recommendation hinges on its uptake by the global community. To this end, we strongly encourage the United States to adopt...
Jeroen Sondervan, in an Open Access Books Network (OABN) post: Under the banner and with the support of the Open Access Books Network, I organized the series ‘OA Books Workouts’, which were five talks (45 minutes) with humanities scholars from different disciplines...
From the author bio of Mirela Roncevic’s Commonplace article on European librarians’ views on OA monographs: Mirela Roncevic is a doctoral candidate at the University of Zagreb, where she has studied information and communication science, with a special...
I missed this important Brookings report from September: Hundreds of higher education institutions are procuring algorithms that strategically allocate scholarships to convince more students to enroll. In doing so, these enrollment management algorithms help colleges...
Twitter has rightly blown up over Taylor & Francis’s appalling “Accelerated Publication” grift: If time is critical in your publishing strategy, our Accelerated Publication options are available on a select number of biomedical journals and can...
